Interviews about Space Science

How we're about to get closer to our Sun than ever before using ground up bones...

When it comes to stellar death, it's go big or go home...

Mars was once home to enormous tidal waves, new evidence suggests.

Watching planets cross the sun was hugely important in understanding the scale of our universe but why do scientists...

Exoplanets may yield clues as to whether there might be life somewhere out there. But they're so far away, so why...

How we study planets beyond our own solar system...

On 9 May, Mercury will be seen as a black dot silhouetted against the Sun…but why are scientists so excited about it?

The Japanese team have lost contact with the quarter of a billion dollar satellite but what happened?

One day, satellites will help us explore the Moon and Mars...

It's been over 50 years since this satellite launched and its long-since been decommisioned but what happens when...

Why, when the rest of us have been sat in an economic downturn, has the satellite industry been booming?

Europe's Galileo will soon be operational, providing us with much more accurate navigation but why do we need it?

Space is one tough cookie to crack but there's now 3,000 satellites up there, so how have we done it?

We're sending another probe to Mars! But why are we going back?

NASA plans to set fire to a space station, simply to find out what will happen.

It's time to test the scientists' general science knowledge with a round of fact or fiction.

Einstein predicted gravitational waves a century ago with the publication of his theory of general relativity. But what...

LIGO directly detected gravitational waves for the first time, but how did they do it?

There's been a lot of excitement surrounding the discovery but how does this fit within our wider ideas about...

Back in 2013, BICEP claimed to have detected gravitational waves, but the discovery has since been disputed....

Gravitational waves made a big splash around the world but why has their detection revolutionised astronomy and physics?

Everyone is talking about how great the discovery is but does it have any applications?

In 2013, BICEP annouced they had found gravitational waves. How are these different to what LIGO have found?

Given that these gravitational waves only distort spacetime by less than the width of a proton, how did were they...